James Dean Quotes
You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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My father was a lawyer.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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It scares me to think that one day I'm not going to be in school anymore.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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Well, I'm an independent person.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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Over the years I've learned that, to be a good manager, you need to have passion, and you need to have a strong character. Without those things, the job is very, very difficult.
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Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.
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I want to have her back as an ingredient in the restoration of my past. Could I have wished her anything worse? Having got once through death, to come back and then, at some later date, have all her dying to do all over again? They call Stephen the first martyr. Hadn't Lazarus the rawer deal?
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Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation to singular prenatal passivity which science, in its finite but unbounded wisdom, has succeeded in selling their wives.
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You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.
